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Juria Toramae 4
Title
Juria Toramae 4: Clip 4
Keyword
Photography, Islands, Mapping
Date
2018-02-24
Description
Juria Toramae talks about her process of super-imposing maps of Singapore on top of each other to show how the coast / outline of the island has changed over time and compare it to her work with photographs in Points of Departure.
Charles Lim 4
Title
Charles Lim 4: Clip 4
Keyword
Coast, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
Date
2018-02-26
Description
Charles Lim talks about land reclamation and his SEA STATE project "Inside / Outside."
Nuraliah Norasid 3
Title
Nuraliah Norasid 3: Clip 3
Keyword
Communication, Culture, Embodiment
Date
2018-02-27
Description
Nuraliah Norasid discusses how she conceived of the languages in The Gatekeeper in relation to the physical bodies of the different races and their social organisations. She explains her decision to use the medusa as a central figure in the novel.
Jason Wee 3
Title
Jason Wee 3: Clip 3
Keyword
Planning & Design, Colonisation, Mixed Media Art, Government Intervention
Date
2018-02-23
Description
Jason Wee explains the thought behind his art installation Labyrinths, with references to choreography, colonisation, and governmental planning.
Nuraliah Norasid Reading an Excerpt from The Gatekeeper
Title
Nuraliah Norasid Reading an Excerpt from The Gatekeeper
Keyword
Migration, Language, Diversity, Culture, Community, Convergence, Arrival, Settlement, Land, Space, Colonialism, Movement, Government, Displacement, Accelerated Change, Singapore, Communication, Modernization, Discrimination, Stratification, Marginalization, Writing
Date
2018-02-27
Description
In this recording, Nuraliah Norasid reads an excerpt from her novel The GateKeeper. Norasid raises topics of culture, settlement, discrimination, and development--depicting the colonial reality of spaces and the accelerated changes such a reality brings with it.
Jason Wee 1
Title
Jason Wee 1: Clip 1
Keyword
Embodiment, Photography, Mixed Media Art
Date
2018-02-23
Description
Jason Wee discusses his artistic practice and how he moves between mediums.
Clara Chow 2
Title
Clara Chow 2: Clip 2
Keyword
Anxiety, Architecture, Environmental Degradation, Official Narratives
Date
2018-02-23
Description
Clara Chow discusses how she resists official Singaporean narratives of progress through her writing and assuages personal anxieties about space / purpose / production through crocheting.
Robert Zhao 2
Title
Robert Zhao 2: Clip 2
Keyword
Documentation, Landscape / Skyline, Land Reclamation
Date
2018-03-06
Description
Robert Zhao and Joanne Leow discuss the space of reclaimed land and how Singaporeans negotiate that space as potential and void.
Leung Chi Wo 1: Clip 1
Title
Leung Chi Wo 1: Clip 1
Keyword
Narrative, Memory, History, Editied Truth, Power, Personal, Collective, Objects, nostalgia, Commercialization, Commodification
Date
2018-03-12
Description
In this audio recording, Leung Chi Wo addresses the complex relationship between history and memory in Hong Kong’s past. He acknowledges both the importance and the potential difficulty of object-based presentation, and discusses how he counteracts the problem of the commercialization or commodification of the nostalgia of such objects.
Nuraliah Norasid 1
Title
Nuraliah Norasid 1: Clip 1
Keyword
Re/development, Gentrification, Planning & Design, Housing
Date
2018-02-27
Description
Nuraliah Norasid talks about the underground settlement Nelroote in her novel, The Gate Keeper, and compares it to Singapore's history of displacing residents to build new housing.